, 1887-07-17
OLD SOILS FIERY TORCH
Blazing Hot Weather in the
East.
Thermometers Ranging at
Over 100 in the Shade.
Half a Million Dollar Blaze in
New York.
Weather IN the East.

CHICAGO, July l6.-The intensely hot
weather here and throughout the North
west continues, the mercury ranging from
950 to 1862. There were four deaths from
sunstroke this morning.
A later dispatch says four deaths have
occurred from sunstroke since noon, max
ing in the twenty-tour hours eight deaths.
Forty cases of prostration are reported
and several more are expected to result
fatally.
CINCINNATI, July l6.-The tempera-
lure was % hotter at noon to-day than
yesterday. There have been a number of
prostrations among laborers and others
exposed to the heat. -Four deaths were
reported yesterday and four other deaths
have been reported up to noon to day.
Yesterday many laborers had to give up
work IN account OF the great heat.
The maximum heat to-day was equal to
that of yesterday, while the average was
higher. To-day for the nrst time during
the hot term horses began to fall in the
streets. Sixteen persons were Frustrated
with heat in public places and seven
deaths to day were reported, this makes
to day and yesterday twenty eight pros
%trations and eleven deaths. The signal
station thermometer registered 90 maxi
mum, which means from l0l0 to 1929 on
the sidewalks.
MILWAUKEE, July I6.-Up to IL
o o'clock to night twenty cases of suustruke
have been reported at the central police
station; of this number three were fatal,
the victims being found dead on the
street or dying in the patrol wagon. The
day was the hottest ever known in Mil
waukee, the thermometer this afternoon
reaching 1902
ST.. LOUIS, July 16.-For the past
week it has been intensely hot in this
city, and there has been much suffering
iu consequence, though there have been
few cases of prostration and only four ia
talities up to to-day, when the thermome.
ter beat all previous records this year and
registered 1929 in the shade at 4 o'clock,
with eighteen prostrations reported, three
of which resulted fatally.
~PITTsBURG, July l6.-The mercury
was go at 2 p. m. to-day, the highest
point reached this season. Two fatal
cases of sunstroke and a number of seri
Gus prostrations from heat have been re-
ported. The iron and steel mills were
compelled to close during the heat of the
day.
PHILADELPHIA, July l6.-Five deaths
occurred here to-day from prostration by
the excessive heat.
CLEVELAND, July 16.-The heat here
to-day was terrific. Yesterday was the
hottest July day in Cleveland for nine
years, but it is several degrees warmer to-
day, the mercury registering $50 in the
shade.
DETROIT, July 16. -Yesterday. and to-,
day was the hottest Weather known here
for many years-yesterdaY, $40; at 6 a.
IN to day it was So and at moor go.
WASHINGTON, July l6.-Reports re
ceived at the signal Office indicate
that the day has been one of unusual and
extreme heat in all parts of the United
States lying east of the Mississippi and
south OF the lakes, the thermometer
throughout the entire region registering
950 or more. The heated term has APP
parently set in much earlier this year than
heretofore, such a day as to-day being
rarely experienced over such a large sec
ton of country until August. A cold
wave is on its way east from Nebraska,
Dakota and the Lake Superior region,
where the temperature has fallen TO- to
800, but its effect will not be felt on the
Atlantic coast before Monday, and it will
probably have lost much of its force on
its way to the seaboard so that the decline
in temperature will hardly be more than
Sc or 70. Atlanta was the hottest city in
the United States to-day, with the tenn
peraturc sizzling at 1922, while Denver
was the coolest at $50.
UTICA, July l6.-At 3 p. m. to-day
the mercury registered $50 in the shade.
SYRACUSE, July 16.-At 2 p. III. to-
day the mercury registered 1902 in the
shade.
New York, July 16.-Advices to the
Associated Press show the following ex-
treme temperatures at the points named
to-day, nearly all Of them reporting it the
hottest day Of the year and some of the
hottest for many years. New York go,
Washington 97!o, Philadelphia go, Bal
timore 1902, Wilmington, Del, 1902,
New Castle, Del, 1902, Staunton, Va,
1902. Richmond, Va. lO40, Winchester,
Pa, lO20, Troy, N. Y, 950.